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NEGRITA

Our sincere gratitude to everyone who donated to our #50kin50days crowdfunding campaign. Although our Indiegogo campaign has ended, we are still collecting donations on our website in order to reach our $50K goal in order to continue shooting this documentary. The same perks offered on Indiegogo will be available for donations collected on our website starting at $1. No amount is too small. Every dollar counts so please DONATEand spread the word!

NEGRITA, written and directed by Magdalena Albizu, is a documentary about the Afro-Latina identity and experience in the United States.

Black Latinos/as are often overlooked or dichotomized as either “black” or “hispanic” in the United States. However, according to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) , Hispanic or Latino origin can be viewed as the heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person’s parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. Hispanic or Latino origin is independent of race and is termed “ethnicity” by the United States Census Bureau.

NEGRITA highlights individual unique Afro-Latina experiences within a broad range of skin color and ethnicity across the United States, while revealing psychological and social factors that add to the confusion, uncertainty, shame and affirmation about one’s self-image of being both “Black” and “Latina”.

NEGRITA aims to establish a ‘black’ consciousness across all generations by reigniting a movement to embrace Latinos’ African roots through a trans-national dialogue on race, identity, ethnicity, nationality and community-building.